Which Non-Playoff Bowl Game Are You Looking Forward to the Most?

Submitted by FlaWolverine22 on December 8th, 2023 at 8:52 PM

For me it’s Arizona vs Oklahoma(Alamo Bowl). I’m very impressed with Jedd Fisch, and I would like to see him continue to succeed at Arizona.

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blueheron

December 8th, 2023 at 9:15 PM ^

Well done.

On the player level, Taylor Upshaw had a great year for them. 8.5 sacks and honorable mention All-Pac12.

https://stats.pac-12.com/sports/fball/2023-24/players/taylorupshawqr9s

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Speaking (indirectly) of RichRod, he has Jacksonville State in a bowl (New Orleans, against the Ragin' Cajuns of U Louisiana Lafayette) in their first FBS year. He's on the upswing at 60. :)

As for the other lesser bowls, I still need to find out which Big Ten schools were the biggest pains in the ass about SignGate so I can root against them.

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grumbler

December 8th, 2023 at 10:48 PM ^

As for the other lesser bowls, I still need to find out which Big Ten schools were the biggest pains in the ass about SignGate so I can root against them.

The totally unverified info I have seen indicates that you should root against them all except Iowa and Northwestern, Nebraska not having made a bowl this year.

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1VaBlue1

December 8th, 2023 at 9:01 PM ^

Would love to see Arizona beat the snot out of Oklahoma...  I also expect Mizzou to beat an OSU, but only because half that team is already portaled.  All things being equal, OSu would trash the ever-loving shit out of Missouri.

I also want to see FSU beat UGA.  Don't care who is portaled - I want the SEC to look bad and feed some grumble about a shared championship with Michigan.  Because it won't get any traction after some initial hype.

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B-Nut-GoBlue

December 8th, 2023 at 9:03 PM ^

I actually don't even know any bowl matchup other than FSU-Georgia. Were these all announced during the CFP playoff announcement?  Times have changed; children, man.

Is OSU really matched up with Mizzou?  I'll have to go look now.  I legitimately stopped my E$*N.com browsing and that has cut me off a bit from the sports world (which is truly just fine these days).

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Eng1980

December 9th, 2023 at 8:43 AM ^

+/- is about 35 points and Tennessee favored by about 7 points, so they expect Iowa to score two touchdowns?  Touchdown and two field goals?

It seems Tennessee relies on their running game more than Joe Milton.  

It will be interesting to see how Tennessee starts out.  If they don't get out front quickly the Iowa effect may be painful.  There may be 3-4 interceptions in this game.

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M_Born M_Believer

December 9th, 2023 at 9:24 AM ^

Your last sentence just explained how Iowa will score.  Milton will certainly throw at least 1 pick 6 and the other 2-3 interceptions will set up Iowa for their classic 4 plays -5 yards FG drives...

Tennessee wins 24 - 16...  But I would love for Iowa to strangle Tennessee's offense to nothing.

Klatt has it all wrong, it is Iowa's defense that is the Boa...

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FSUBulldog

December 8th, 2023 at 9:07 PM ^

Not interested in any of the opt out bowls. I will probably just watch the 2 SEC invitational bowls and the title game. The NCAA/CFP committee are ruining what used to be a great thing. 

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NittanyFan

December 8th, 2023 at 9:15 PM ^

Alamo: Best non-NYD6 team from the Big XII vs. best non-NYD6 team from the Pac-12.

Of course, the Citrus has a similar match-up, except it's B1G vs. SEC.  But, those conferences always seem to place 3-4 teams each in the NYD6 Bowls, so we're left with the likes of Iowa and Tennessee (or last year, Purdue and LSU).

Big XII and Pac-12 meanwhile tend to place 1-2 teams each in the NYD6 Bowls.  So they seem to get better "next best" teams than the Citrus does.

FWIW, this is the 5th consecutive year the Alamo Bowl has either Texas or Oklahoma.

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Logan88

December 9th, 2023 at 8:53 AM ^

How did Minnesota get a bowl invite, didn't they finish the regular season 5-7? Are they still doing that thing where 5-7 teams can get invited based on high APR? Is APR even still a thing in the Transfer Portal era? I would assume every schools APR is shot to hell with all the pre-graduation transfers that occur now.

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Harball sized HAIL

December 8th, 2023 at 9:25 PM ^

Cotton bowl.  We will get to see which 3rd string players from The Ohio will be transferring after next Thanksgiving Day weekend.

Holiday is typically good.  Be nice to see Riley end up 7-6.  This is the life you chose brah.  Good luck next yr - LSU (Vegas), @ Mich, Wisky, PSU, @ UDub, UCLA, Notre Shame

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MaizeBlueA2

December 8th, 2023 at 9:50 PM ^

Not the question, but bowl season is so watered down with the emphasis on the CFP and players opting out (which I'm all for).

I wish there was a way that players could opt out AND THEN they do the bowl selections. Just to create the best matchups.

Same teams, still bowl eligible, but I want to see better matchups.

If not having Jordan Travis kept FSU out of the CFP (which I don't like but don't completely disagree with)...I think not having your superstars should put you in a lower tier bowl.

I wish they could create a bowl opt-out window and then do the selections after that.

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goblu330

December 9th, 2023 at 7:43 AM ^

I wish they would drastically decrease the number of bowls.  I know, $$$$.  But at some point they are going to need to bite the bullet on this because the bowls don’t make any sense.  The venues are like 1/4 full, if that.  If you decrease the amount of them, and have them in only desired locations, it will again be seen as a reward for an accomplishment and teams will care more and less players will opt out.  Bowl season is a caricature now.  

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Logan88

December 9th, 2023 at 9:01 AM ^

I'm 51 y/o and remember the "good old days" when there were only about 12-15 bowl games and you actually had to be, you know, good to get invited to a game so the matchups were ALL interesting. Plus the games were actually just The Citrus Bowl, The Cotton Bowl or The Gator Bowl not The AT&T Cotton Bowl at Chase Field brought to you by Jackson-Hewitt. 

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